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Species Rhyphonemognatha rufa

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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Tenebrionoidea
Family Meloidae (Blister Beetles)
Subfamily Nemognathinae
Tribe Nemognathini
Genus Rhyphonemognatha
Species rufa (Rhyphonemognatha rufa)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Rhyphonemognatha rufa (LeConte)
Orig. Comb: Zonitis rufa LeConte 1854
Syn: Nemognatha rufa (LeConte)
Size
7-9 mm(1)
Identification
Similar to Nemognatha, but has galae unmodified. Bright red with appendages black. Pronotum shiny, sparsely punctate. Elytra densely punctate and pubescent.(1)
Range
AZ-TX, Upper Midwest / Mex. - Map (2)(3)
Habitat
On ground cherry (Physalis); beetles are often deep in the flowers and hard to see(1)(2)
Season
Mar-Sep(2)
Food
Adults recorded from the flowers of Physalis subglabrata and Physalis heterophylla (Solanaceae)
larval bee host unknown (2)
Remarks
Type Locality: Texas
Print References
LeConte J.L. 1854. Notice of some coleopterous insects, from the collections of the Mexican Boundary Commission. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 7: 79-85.
Internet References
Type - MCZ, Harvard
Works Cited
1.The Beetles of Northeastern North America, Vol. 1 and 2.
Downie, N.M., and R.H. Arnett. 1996. The Sandhill Crane Press, Gainesville, FL.
2. A revision of the genera Nemognatha, Zonitis, and Pseudozonitis (Coleoptera, Meloidae) in America north of Mexico, with....
Enns, W.R. 1956. University of Kansas Scientific Bulletin 37(17): 685-909.
3.Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)